No one seems to care that the traitorous, neoliberal politicians sold our geek jobs out to H1Bs and to outsourced 3rd world labor. I say indict, try, and convict for treason (in a court of law) all the politicians who sold us out, along with the CEOs who did the same, and then sentence them to death and execute them in the electric chair, as all traitors should be executed, by rule of law, and then we can get America back on track.
The tech bubble(s) of the 90s wasn't caused by IT departments. It was caused by venture capitalist, who had major investments in tech companies, bullshitting every other company CxO in the world into thinking they too had to have an "Internet Strategy" or that they had to buy into the latest and greatest thingamabob or they would go the way of the dinosaurs. Then after they got other suckers to buy into their IPO's they bailed and brought the tech industry back to earth. Now they are telling CxOs they must have an "Offshoring Strategy" or their company will go the way of the dinosaurs. Wanna guess where the VCs have their money invested these days...
How right you are. I remember when I was in the China Telecom IPO - but that was because I knew where their telecom equipment was from, that part of it might be hype, and after setting clear sell signals so that once it drove up during the boom it would sell off without any conscious action on my part.
All things change.
But, one problem is the assumption that the US is the driver of the world... there is nothing in our history (the world, not the US) that would lead us to believe that the US is not the same as the UK (British Empire) or the French Empire, or the Prussian Empire, or the Polish Empire, or many others that preceded us.
Face it, tech may come back - but not necessarily to here - and definitely not unreasonable expenditures on IT.
really, speculative bubbles have been with us since before we even had markets per se.
As someone who did quite well in never forgetting basic investing rules - for example, while I participated in many IPOs - and still do - it was only with an average amount of $1000 with my typical stock purchase in "normal" stocks being $10,000 - and I always watched the IPO lockup expirations and sold out of most stocks at least enough to cover money in at the 90, 180, or when it peaked beyond any reason.
The concept that certain firms were worth more than all of Japan was, quite clearly to all but those dazzled by the bright tech promises, insane.
So some of us employed strategies that actually worked during other speculative bubbles - laddering investments so that while one might own 400 shares of Red Hat today, i started with 100 and bought in and out when people got overly excited or depressed - diversifying investments so that it was never too much in one place - paying off a lot of my mortgage so the refinance I just signed has me owning half my house (the down payment was from buying/selling MSFT on product release bubble and inevitable downgrade) - but those who didn't probably will never learn.
Face it, having half of all human wealth and production go into tech is just plain insane.
Note: I still own MSFT and RHAT - just not as much as if I'd never diversified - and as a result, the "crash" never really hurt me too much.
if you rely on one phone and it's VOIP and can't even think and realize that a fire alarm would trigger fire trucks to come with paramedics... well, maybe you shouldn't perpetuate...
What's next, soft fluffy pillows for people driving cars when they're too tired?
Don't underestimate the power of the geek
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SEC Investigating SCO?
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We have been activated.
Wonder geek powers, activate! Form of: an 800lb. gorrilla! Form of: a tidal wave of litigation!
Actually, if anyone remembers, it was the tidal wave of slashdot-expanded open source coders that got the SEC to force the Red Hat stock to be pulled out of the pockets of stock manipulators and reissued to the open source Friends and Family group of IPO stock.
So, don't underestimate the power of the good side of the geek... it is far, far stronger than the dark side of the stock manipulator.
Note the distinction between a proposal from an activist and a law that was actually passed. You may want to hang on a bit before moving to Saskatoon...
It's a summary of the law proposed by a crown task force. That's how they make laws up in Canada.
Besides, I'd move to Vancouver, what with spring being 10 days earlier than it was 10 years ago... about the same as Seattle and I went to college there.
The U.S. FTC "do-not-call" list worked wonders for phone spam for our household. We used to get at least 40 phone spams per month and now get less about 3 per month. Perhaps it could be employed to reduce the volume of spam, too.
Same here. The only phone calls I get now are from friends, relatives, and companies I actually do business with. How sweet it is!
But so long as most spamhauses are in Florida, I predict nothing will be done here in the US, so I salute Canada for doing something whilst we fiddle.
You know they'll always get their ham... byproduct... um, email.
About time an efficient and methodical group was let loose upon the denizens of the underworld who send out spam. Their chief weapons are Politeness, Sincerity, and a Stringent Application of Canadian Law to preserve a spam-free environment...
Notice that as Firefox and Opera compete for the lead, and Safari, Camino, Mozilla, and Konqueror speed behind, IE is not even in the race. It's been lapped five times while it was in the pit, and the driver just woke up.
In an unrelated item, it was discovered that Dvorak was trying to find some way to pump up his hit count on his online articles, which is used to partially determine his salary, at review time.
The use of flame columns (similar to flame posts or troll posts) is a tried and true method to get the slashdot effect to pump up your hit count so you can ask for more money since you're so "interesting to readers".
In short: we've been had by Dvorak. Doubly so. He just wants justification for going on a tour of Europe all expenses paid.
Weren't you paying attention or did you even RTFA's MS already stated the the 360 will be backwards compatable to old xbox games.
No, the articles in the Seattle P-I, NY Times, and Seattle Times all said that MSFT will "port" old xBox games to the new xBox 360, but that most won't be usable.
RTFA yourself.
Analysis by various online newspapers worldwide, such as WSJ and IHT and then by services such as the BBC and CNBC all agree on those points as well.
...will be when the day comes that every e-mail I receive has a "Detonate Sender" button that I can click to instantly cause all PCs owned by the sender (and ideally, through the wonders of GPS and RFID, the sender him/herself) to explode.
A similar feature, "Caller Detonate", is still also something that would be useful to have for the telephone and cellular networks.
Amusingly, the first operating system I ever created had User Hostile features similar to what you describe, using peripheral calls. To operate the terminal, you had to actuate the device which was placed under your seat, literally putting your life on the line if anyone issued a "kill" command. Of course, this was before cellular was really big, so it only had email and telephone devices, but the principle is the same.
1. People like google on slashdot will still have ads show up for Eritrean Singles while reading this article. That's just plain wrong.
2. When you buy a house - like I did this morning - they have to tell you in my state that they are going to sell all your info to everyone and you have to proactively opt-out after closing... there are other examples where few people read the fine print and sell their info to spamster without realizing it. So selling itself is not ok, not if most consumers will continue to be clueless about it.
3. Spamsters rely on the fact that 0.01 percent of all people who get their spam will reply or buy something from them. They are only willing to pay you - as a person - 0.0000001 thousands of a cent for selling them your info - it's cheaper just to buy it in bulk. So the profit motive isn't there, since I would require $500,000 per email per contact per info piece known.
Face it, the only way to deal with spam is hunt them down, drug them, and ship them to Iraq to die for us.
i think MSFT is in a world of hurt now that Sony announced it's new PS3.
Think of how much disk storage 6 USBs mean... the shared music, the video your friend downloaded from Canada - land of the free and home of music without IP restrictions... and what that will mean to you.
"Sony also confirmed that the machine will be backward compatible all the way to the original PlayStation."
Think about it. As opposed to the toss-all-your-games-out and buy-the-port approach of MSFT, they will all work for the PS3 if they work for the PS1 or PS2.
OK, I'm sold. Think I'll finally buy a PS2 cheap and ignore the MSFT hype.
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but since we already know what happens in Sith, how do we explain this one?
I think I'll wait a month till the lines die down and see it in all it's glory at the Cinerama here in Seattle.
Although I could be conviced to see it in IMAX - think of it, a three-story tall light saber duel!
No one seems to care that the traitorous, neoliberal politicians sold our geek jobs out to H1Bs and to outsourced 3rd world labor. I say indict, try, and convict for treason (in a court of law) all the politicians who sold us out, along with the CEOs who did the same, and then sentence them to death and execute them in the electric chair, as all traitors should be executed, by rule of law, and then we can get America back on track.
I think you mean neocons.
The tech bubble(s) of the 90s wasn't caused by IT departments. It was caused by venture capitalist, who had major investments in tech companies, bullshitting every other company CxO in the world into thinking they too had to have an "Internet Strategy" or that they had to buy into the latest and greatest thingamabob or they would go the way of the dinosaurs. Then after they got other suckers to buy into their IPO's they bailed and brought the tech industry back to earth. Now they are telling CxOs they must have an "Offshoring Strategy" or their company will go the way of the dinosaurs. Wanna guess where the VCs have their money invested these days...
... there is nothing in our history (the world, not the US) that would lead us to believe that the US is not the same as the UK (British Empire) or the French Empire, or the Prussian Empire, or the Polish Empire, or many others that preceded us.
How right you are. I remember when I was in the China Telecom IPO - but that was because I knew where their telecom equipment was from, that part of it might be hype, and after setting clear sell signals so that once it drove up during the boom it would sell off without any conscious action on my part.
All things change.
But, one problem is the assumption that the US is the driver of the world
Face it, tech may come back - but not necessarily to here - and definitely not unreasonable expenditures on IT.
really, speculative bubbles have been with us since before we even had markets per se.
As someone who did quite well in never forgetting basic investing rules - for example, while I participated in many IPOs - and still do - it was only with an average amount of $1000 with my typical stock purchase in "normal" stocks being $10,000 - and I always watched the IPO lockup expirations and sold out of most stocks at least enough to cover money in at the 90, 180, or when it peaked beyond any reason.
The concept that certain firms were worth more than all of Japan was, quite clearly to all but those dazzled by the bright tech promises, insane.
So some of us employed strategies that actually worked during other speculative bubbles - laddering investments so that while one might own 400 shares of Red Hat today, i started with 100 and bought in and out when people got overly excited or depressed - diversifying investments so that it was never too much in one place - paying off a lot of my mortgage so the refinance I just signed has me owning half my house (the down payment was from buying/selling MSFT on product release bubble and inevitable downgrade) - but those who didn't probably will never learn.
Face it, having half of all human wealth and production go into tech is just plain insane.
Note: I still own MSFT and RHAT - just not as much as if I'd never diversified - and as a result, the "crash" never really hurt me too much.
if you rely on one phone and it's VOIP and can't even think and realize that a fire alarm would trigger fire trucks to come with paramedics ... well, maybe you shouldn't perpetuate ...
What's next, soft fluffy pillows for people driving cars when they're too tired?
We have been activated.
... it is far, far stronger than the dark side of the stock manipulator.
Wonder geek powers, activate! Form of: an 800lb. gorrilla! Form of: a tidal wave of litigation!
Actually, if anyone remembers, it was the tidal wave of slashdot-expanded open source coders that got the SEC to force the Red Hat stock to be pulled out of the pockets of stock manipulators and reissued to the open source Friends and Family group of IPO stock.
So, don't underestimate the power of the good side of the geek
Trust the Geek, Luke.
They also have more amusing risk factors than that one. (All text from SCO's current 10k)
You forgot one:
ZZZ. We are Evil. We have crossed over to the Dark Side and will be eventually defeated by the Forces of Good.
I claim prior art - in my own cells.
All your proteins are belong to me.
when I heard what the NYT was doing, I decided to stop buying their paper.
I'll read the ones left in the rotunda by others.
Note the distinction between a proposal from an activist and a law that was actually passed. You may want to hang on a bit before moving to Saskatoon...
... about the same as Seattle and I went to college there.
It's a summary of the law proposed by a crown task force. That's how they make laws up in Canada.
Besides, I'd move to Vancouver, what with spring being 10 days earlier than it was 10 years ago
What litigation? They're just going to arrest spamsters. No lawyers need be involved.
The U.S. FTC "do-not-call" list worked wonders for phone spam for our household. We used to get at least 40 phone spams per month and now get less about 3 per month. Perhaps it could be employed to reduce the volume of spam, too.
Same here. The only phone calls I get now are from friends, relatives, and companies I actually do business with. How sweet it is!
But so long as most spamhauses are in Florida, I predict nothing will be done here in the US, so I salute Canada for doing something whilst we fiddle.
as opposed to the totally unworkable opt-out-unless-you're-rich-and-powerful US approach to spam.
Cool!
You know they'll always get their ham ... byproduct ... um, email.
...
About time an efficient and methodical group was let loose upon the denizens of the underworld who send out spam. Their chief weapons are Politeness, Sincerity, and a Stringent Application of Canadian Law to preserve a spam-free environment
when your OS in your car results in a Fatal Exception.
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Geez this patent insanity is getting silly.
Notice that as Firefox and Opera compete for the lead, and Safari, Camino, Mozilla, and Konqueror speed behind, IE is not even in the race. It's been lapped five times while it was in the pit, and the driver just woke up.
What's IE?
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In an unrelated item, it was discovered that Dvorak was trying to find some way to pump up his hit count on his online articles, which is used to partially determine his salary, at review time.
The use of flame columns (similar to flame posts or troll posts) is a tried and true method to get the slashdot effect to pump up your hit count so you can ask for more money since you're so "interesting to readers".
In short: we've been had by Dvorak. Doubly so. He just wants justification for going on a tour of Europe all expenses paid.
Weren't you paying attention or did you even RTFA's MS already stated the the 360 will be backwards compatable to old xbox games.
No, the articles in the Seattle P-I, NY Times, and Seattle Times all said that MSFT will "port" old xBox games to the new xBox 360, but that most won't be usable.
RTFA yourself.
Analysis by various online newspapers worldwide, such as WSJ and IHT and then by services such as the BBC and CNBC all agree on those points as well.
land of the free, home of the not-spied-on.
Way way overdue outlawing spyware.
A similar feature, "Caller Detonate", is still also something that would be useful to have for the telephone and cellular networks.
Amusingly, the first operating system I ever created had User Hostile features similar to what you describe, using peripheral calls. To operate the terminal, you had to actuate the device which was placed under your seat, literally putting your life on the line if anyone issued a "kill" command. Of course, this was before cellular was really big, so it only had email and telephone devices, but the principle is the same.
1. People like google on slashdot will still have ads show up for Eritrean Singles while reading this article. That's just plain wrong.
... there are other examples where few people read the fine print and sell their info to spamster without realizing it. So selling itself is not ok, not if most consumers will continue to be clueless about it.
2. When you buy a house - like I did this morning - they have to tell you in my state that they are going to sell all your info to everyone and you have to proactively opt-out after closing
3. Spamsters rely on the fact that 0.01 percent of all people who get their spam will reply or buy something from them. They are only willing to pay you - as a person - 0.0000001 thousands of a cent for selling them your info - it's cheaper just to buy it in bulk. So the profit motive isn't there, since I would require $500,000 per email per contact per info piece known.
Face it, the only way to deal with spam is hunt them down, drug them, and ship them to Iraq to die for us.
i think MSFT is in a world of hurt now that Sony announced it's new PS3.
... the shared music, the video your friend downloaded from Canada - land of the free and home of music without IP restrictions ... and what that will mean to you.
;-)
Think of how much disk storage 6 USBs mean
Yowza!
"Sony also confirmed that the machine will be backward compatible all the way to the original PlayStation."
Think about it. As opposed to the toss-all-your-games-out and buy-the-port approach of MSFT, they will all work for the PS3 if they work for the PS1 or PS2.
OK, I'm sold. Think I'll finally buy a PS2 cheap and ignore the MSFT hype.
and if they're not doing that, then I'll just wait till someone tries to get rid of his old xBox instead of paying the MSFT tax.
unattended, so that the user experience won't be degraded ...
It's a feature, not a bug.